Looking toward the east at the Carson City Airport in 1960.
Saturday
145 Years Ago
With singular pertinacity, the local lunatic of the Virginia Chronicle persists in advertising a lost meerschaum. The notices are considerably variates and display no mean struggle of the imaginative facilities. The last form is to allude to this pipe of the disordered fancy as “about the size of a hen’s egg held in a finely carved hand.” This is a strange hallucination.
140 Years Ago
The windstorm of yesterday was as severe if it more so than any we have experienced during this exceptionally hard winter. At noon, the wind was blowing at the rate of 30 mph, and it was a difficult matter for pedestrians to propel themselves along the streets without being blown off their feet. A Chinese person walking along the street opposite the Ormsby House, was blown into the street, and he was without question the most scared Mongolian ever seen in these parts.
120 Years Ago
Exciting Runaway. One of Bennett’s six-horse teams employed in hauling ore from the Silver Mill mine to the Nevada reduction works at Dayton, ran away yesterday. They carried the big wagon into a gully, demolishing it. The drover was thrown from his high seat down among the horses’ hoofs but had a miraculous escape from serious injury. None of the horses were hurt.
80 Years Ago
A tentative plan for control of Japanese, alien or American-born sent in the future to Nevada from evacuation-troubled California has been announced by Gov. E.P. Carville. The governor pointed out that no word of movement of Japanese has been announced into Nevada, but he intends to be ready.
40 Years Ago
The challenge of future business leaders is to turn technology into new products and services in a rapidly changing world, Attorney General Richard Bryan said Wednesday.
20 Years Ago
Playing at the Ironwood Stadium Cinema in Minden, The Scorpion Kink, Murder by Number, The Sweetest Thing, Changing Lanes, Frailty, High Crimes and Clockstoppers.
Sunday
145 Years Ago
Spelling Match — This evening, at the theater, a grand etymological contest between the ladies and gentlemen of Carson will be given for the benefit of the Presbyterian Choir. The leading professional gentlemen against the schoolmarms and other ladies.
140 Years Ago
Gone to Wyoming. Lieutenant Governor Adams left last night for Wyoming to look after his bands of cattle which are roaming about on many hills in the territory. He will be absent several weeks.
120 Years Ago
Wedekind city is now lighted with electricity. The same power is used in running and pumping machinery at the mines.
80 Years Ago
Approximately 16,000 male residents in Nevada will be registered April 27 for classification according to their skills and aptitudes for war production work, Jay H. White, state director of selective service, estimates.
40 Years Ago
Cloud’s Cal-Neva Lodge at Incline Village has been slapped with the biggest single fine ever levied against a Nevada casino for tampering with slot machines. The casino was ordered to pay $325,000 plus costs for the investigation.
20 Years Ago
More than 60 doctors applied for insurance coverage from the newly created Medical Liability Association of Nevada during the association’s first week of operation.
Tuesday
145 Years Ago
We do not know that progress has been made in the matter of establishing a savings bank in Carson, but we do know that the field for an invitation of that character is an inviting one.
140 Years Ago
More storm. It appears that the Winter has not yet spent. Yesterday, the hills west of town were completely hidden from view by a dense and uninterrupted fall of snow. Snow squalls of a Marchy character were the order of the day.
120 Years Ago
Carson was visited with a rainstorm yesterday, which comes at a good time as many of the farmers have planted their fields of grain.
80 Years Ago
The government has announced plans for establishing 10,000 Japanese at Camp in Idaho.
40 Years Ago
Britain imposed a news blackout today, as troops poised to strike the Falkland Islands.
20 Years Ago
State officials plan to put a steel warehouse just south of the legislative building in the midst of Carson City’s redevelopment district has raised a few eyebrows among downtown boosters.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
